A teenage pilot learning to fly is helping to ease the shortage of medical supplies in rural hospitals in Virginia during the coronavirus pandemic by delivering them through his flight lessons.
The first pilot to break the sound barrier, Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, was born on this day in 1923, in Myra, West Virginia.
A helicopter pilot flying supplies to hurricane-devastated areas of the Bahamas found villagers stranded in rubble on one of the islands.
A female commercial helicopter pilot has become the first woman to fly the F-35 fighter jet for the Marine Corps.
Former Army Ranger Major Christian Richard Martin was pulled from a plane at Louisville International Airport on Friday.
Alaska Airlines announced Thursday it had grounded a Seattle-based pilot after his female co-pilot filed a lawsuit claiming that the male captain raped and drugged her on a June 2017 work trip.
A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a fight broke out over a passenger who allegedly could not stop passing gas.
A United Airlines pilot was removed from a plane before a flight from Austin to San Francisco Saturday evening after going on a rant over the intercom system.
A Canadian pilot was arrested Saturday after he was found drunk in a plane he was about to fly out of Calgary Airport in western Canada.
Crisis was averted on Tuesday when a pilot escaped unharmed from the plane he crashed upside down on a Montgomery Field runway in San Diego.
One person is dead after a small plane crashed onto a BART track in Hayward, California on Sunday, causing a portion of the public transportation system to be shut down for several hours.
Federal authorities arrested 60-year-old retired pilot David Arnston on Wednesday on allegations that he piloted a plane while drunk in June 2014.
The Islamic State (IS) terror group’s Libya branch is reportedly using a flight simulator to train jihadis on how to pilot aircraft, after successfully apprehending the system from an airport once held by Libya’s recognized military under former dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
Iran’s state-media claims it was behind the rescue of a Russian pilot whose jet was downed by Turkish fighter jets, utilizing Hezbollah terrorists and Syrian forces to complete their mission. The Russian plane had violated Turkish airspace, causing Ankara to
Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Flying Officer Marium Mukhtiar, the nation’s first female fighter pilot, died in a training crash in Kundian, which is located 109 miles southwest of Islamabad.
On Tuesday, Peter Weber Jr., 95, from Cameron Park, flew a plane three times around an airfield in Placerville, hoping to set a Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest active pilot, according to the Sacramento Bee.
